Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enclosed letter is written in the hope that you will publish it. Henry D. Perky was my father, and I have long resented the ill-considered way in which his good name has been used...
...that he was doing a great public service; just as years afterwards he believed in his biscuits as a religion and, in Conquistador spirit, persuaded the people of New England to eat them, as it were at the sword's point, sharpened by a scorn that startled these good people into submission...
...Klan Dragons, its Watson machine. Congressman Vestal was not a leader in the anti-reapportionment fight. But he happened recently to have been appointed the Republican Whip?it being thereby his job to whip all Republicans into their seats to vote for whatever measure the Republican leaders declared good...
...Prohibition appropriation, chiefly to focus popular attention on the amount necessary to enforce Prohibition properly. Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran once estimated that $300,000,000 a year would be a tidy and appropriate Prohibition sum. The Bruce proposal was immediately discarded. Senator Harris, however, offered his suggestion in good faith, said that it would remedy "farcical" conditions of enforcement...
Then there is the question of hours. Scientific experiment will also solve this problem: let one run from 7 to 11.30 as every nice little party should, and let the other function from 1 to 6. Time allowed for a good supper in Boston and everybody would be gloriously happen! J. C. de Wilde...